How to Use peevish in a Sentence

peevish

adjective

• I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.
• There’s a peevish tone, though, that soon seeps into the DNA of the book.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
• The whole thing feels fairly peevish—that is to say, properly British.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
• In the end, though, God answers with a thunderous, if not peevish, rebuke.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• The rhythm of his clicks was erratic, possibly peevish.
  — PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2023
• DeSantis sometimes comes across as peevish and defensive, has made a misstatement or two and was mocked for struggling to put on a mask.
  — Fox News, 29 May 2020
• The censorship is anything but a peevish dictator’s tantrum.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• This is an odd, peevish book — but certainly not an uninteresting one.
  — Lisa Schwarzbaum, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• But more than a century and a half after Crum’s peevish inspiration, the potato chip isn’t just one of our most popular foods but also our most versatile.
  — Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• One reason is the vague wish that an annoying question will provoke a memorably peevish answer that will be news for a day before everybody forgets it.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2022
• The famously peevish ex-Chicago Cubs manager Leo Durocher was careful to keep an extra set of front teeth in his pocket in case someone took particular umbrage at his taunts.
  — Tom Saler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2017
• Once the peevish Portuguese actually arrived at Stamford Bridge, Gallas was an integral part of back-to-back title victories.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The other is the sometimes bumbling, frequently ineffective and often peevish politician who showed up Wednesday night, operating on the fly.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2020
• In the meantime, however, there will be no shortage of conflicting diagnoses, with pockets of consensus surrounded by a few peevish second and third opinions.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The book is a chronicle of distractions and peevish excuses that also shows how the consuming labor of procrastination became a crucial part of the novel’s texture.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2020
• And then there’s the senators’ rank partisan grandstanding and peevish political payback.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024